Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., March 28, 7 â 8 pm EST
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The Cityâs Public Hospital System Faces Unprecedented Threats
To Its Survival
with
Dr. Frank Proscia, President, Doctors Council, SEIU

NYC hospitals, faced with $1.2B budget gap are hemorrhaging. Obamaâs
landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, while it aimed to reduce
the number of uninsured Americans, also expressly prohibited the participation
of millions of Americaâs undocumented residents. In addition, the legislation
promised reductions in federal support for safety net hospitals, like New York
Cityâs public hospitals, for charity care. Obamacare has dealt a financial blow
to the already cash-strapped system, which runs 11 hospitals. Health and
Hospitals (H+H) is also losing Medicaid funds. Meanwhile, the mayorâs plan
for ensuring the long-term sustainability of the cityâs hospital system has yet to
be revealed, although itâs clear that funding H+H is a heavy lift that the city
canât do alone. The State must play a key role in terms of hospital funding,
and Cuomoâs initial budget, released in January, only increased concerns
inside City Hall as the governor's budget appeared to shift to the city
Medicaid costs historically borne by the state, to the tune of a $1 billion by
2020. Cuomo and the state Legislature have until their April 1 budget
deadline to frame a final budget, at which time the de Blasio administration
will know just how much of a partner they have in Albany. Right now, the
short-term fiscal future of the cityâs hospital system, the largest in the country,
is at best murky.
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Court Rebuffs Mayor Emanuel To Deliver Pro-Worker Ruling On
Pensions, While Mayorâs Other Anti-Worker Policies Pushes Teachers
Union To Strike
with
Samantha Winslow, staff writer, Labor Notes

The Illinois Supreme Court dealt a setback to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, ruling, in
a pro-worker victory that a 2014 law that required Chicago city workers to pay
more toward their retirements while also scaling back their future benefits was
unconstitutional. This ruling makes it clear that the politicians who ran up the
debt cannot dump the burden on public-service workers and retirees.
Meanwhile, the decision comes amid other financial pressures for Emanuel as
the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union voted to approve a one-day
walkout on April 1 in protest of budget cuts and forced furlough days.
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From Hurt and Hope During Holy Week Towards Resurrection
with
The New Sanctuary Coalition NYC
and
Fahd Ahmed, Exec. Director, DRUM â South Asian Organizing Center

The U.S. is scheduled to deport over 160 Bangladeshis who had requested
asylum. These men have been kept in detention under deplorable conditions,
so much so that they were driven to go on hunger strikes to bring attention to
their plight. Now, they are fighting for basic human rights against their imminent
deportation. But, on Easter Friday, a special day for many Christians a broad
coalition led by faith-based organizations came to Federal Plaza in a pray out
to raise up the principles of that holy day by protesting the deportation of their
brother Bangladeshis and advocating for changes to our immigration policies
that lift up the common humanity of all and provide people with the opportunity
to live in dignity. The protestors surrounded Federal Plaza, speaking the words
of pain and suffering that immigrants experience and railed against a system
that punishes and destroys families and communities.
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Tune in at 6 - 8 am to Wednesday Edition hosted by Mimi Rosenberg
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In addition to being broadcast over WBAI, 99.5 FM in NYC and the
tri-state area 7 - 8 pm EST Mondays, Building Bridges is syndicated
to 50 broadcast and internet radio stations in the US, Canada and
the UK

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

WZBC, Boston, Mass.
WDRT, Viroqua, WI
KYRS, Spokane, WA
Liberty and Justice1640, Shirley Mass
KWTF,Sonoma County CA
KNSJ, San Diego, CA
KRFY, Sandpoint, ID
KMUD, Redway, CA
WXOJ-LP, Florence, MA
KPOV, Bend, Oregon
KONR Ankorage, Alaska
WAPJ, Torrington, CT.
WOOL, Great Falls, Vermont and New Hampshire
KKRN Bella Vista, CA
KGHI, Westport, WA
KSVR, Mount Vernon, WA
WAZU, Peoria, Illinois
KMEC, Ukiah, CA
KOWA, Olympia Washington .
WWUH, West Hartford, CT
WMNF HD FM Tampa, Florida
WPVM - MAIN-FM Asheville, NC
WERU Blue Hill and Bangor, Maine
WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
WVJW- Benwood, WV
KRFP, Moscow, ID
KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
WKNH ,Keene, NH
CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
WRPI, Troy, New York
WNRB, Wausau, WI
KQRP Salida, California
East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA
KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon
KWMD, Kasiloff-Anchorage, Alaska
WPRR, Grand Rapids, Michigan
KROV, Oroville, CA

as well as internet stations:

Geneva Radio, Geneva, N.Y.
WTF Radio, Bodega Bay CA
CPR Metro, NYC
Radio Free Radical
Radio Free Kansas
Radio Veronica, West Point, PA
Catalystradio.org, U.K.
WXXE
Seattle Radical Radio
Radio for Peace International
Labourstart
AmericanFM.org
Grateful Dread Public Radio
Detour Network, Knoxville, TN
KDX Radio, Homeland, North American
Radio Ear Network, Sarasota, FL
TuneIn.com
Channel One Radio
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